Software Safety Specialist

Responsibilities

• Analyze Equipment for software safety hazards and conduct risk assessments.
• Ensure consistent compliance with all applicable software safety requirements during testing and fielding events.
• Investigate mishap, property damage and near miss incidents to engage in the series of events and gain an understanding of the causes to advance towards the effective actions to mitigate or eradicate the hazards.
• Provide recommendations regarding the areas of software system safety for acquisition areas of responsibility (e.g., safety releases, risk acceptances, regulatory guidance, etc.), and verify that DoD programs adhere to regulations and best practices such as DoDI 5000.02 and MIL-STD-882.
• Provide independent analysis of programmatic safety efforts, ensuring efforts are integrated into overall systems engineering activities, supporting integrated logistics assessments and milestone and fielding recommendations, providing software subject matter expert (SME) review and recommendations for acquisition program safety requirements.
• Help prepare programs for Software System Safety Technical Review Panel presentations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and at least 2 years of experience with developing complex systems.
• Additional 2 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Experience tracking and testing requirements to adhere to software safety processes and procedures.
• Understanding of AI enabled systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• DoDI 5000.88, MIL-STD-882, and IEEE STD-1228 safety guidance and best practices.
• Experience with military vehicular platforms or with ordnance/weapons systems.

Physical Requirements

Sedentary work.